If you haven’t read the previous parts of this series yet, here are the links: [ Part 1 | Part 2 ]. A Refresher In the first part of this series I said that RAM access is the slow component of a modern in-memory database engine and for performance you’d want to reduce RAM access as much as possible. Reduced memory traffic thanks to the new columnar data formats is the most important enabler for the awesome In-Memory processing performance and SIMD is just icing on the cake. In the ...